Freddie Colton The Micro mouses chassis houses a variety of electronic and mechanical components all of which have an associated carbon footprint. For example, raw materials had to be extracted from the earth which required machinery burning diesel fuel, the machinery itself also has its own carbon footprint in in Read more…
This month, I’ve had the opportunity to dive into several ethical problems that not only challenged my critical thinking but also helped me grow professionally. It was an eye-opening experience that has further fueled my passion for ethical problem-solving in technology. Alongside these intellectual challenges, I’ve been busy updating the Read more…
During February we focused on getting our micro mouse to stop spinning in a circle, when doing obstacle avoidance our micro mouse couldn’t follow a straight line. We thought it was a hardware issue, maybe the motors were not spinning evenly or their was uneven power ,it turned out to Read more…
Due to exams we were only able to have one lesson during January so we didn’t do anything during this time ,except solder some unconnected components together and we began testing our obstacle avoidance.
The amount of time we had during this month was short due to the Christmas break, although we still tried to make the most of it. During this month we were fixing a problem on our pcb, the LEDs were not lighting up because of short circuits and broken connections. Read more…
In order to achieve the line following functionality we planned to use 4 white LED in combination with 4 light dependant resistors in order to detect the white line. The line would be detected by exploiting the fact that the white line would reflect light differently to the the black Read more…
The first half of January was spent out of the lab with myself and the rest of the team focusing on our exams for other modules. in the latter weeks of January though we were glad to return to the lab to continue working on our micro mouse. Our first Read more…